From pycyn@aol.com Fri Oct 12 12:10:38 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0); 12 Oct 2001 19:10:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 88236 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2001 18:45:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.221 with QMQP; 12 Oct 2001 18:45:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r01.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.97) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 Oct 2001 18:45:36 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.8.) id r.8.1ace09d5 (4232) for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:45:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <8.1ace09d5.28f8944c@aol.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:45:32 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] How do you feel about this new usage? To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_8.1ace09d5.28f8944c_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_8.1ace09d5.28f8944c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/12/2001 1:04:08 PM Central Daylight Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes: > ganai le jei le glico cu jai bau darlu kei cu pabdu'i le jei le nundarlu > bi'unai cu zasti gi li'a le bangu cu vajni > > Instead of le nunbroda cu rinka le nunbrode, I prefer le jezbroda (is > proportional to) le jezbrode. > > pabdu'i = proportional. Is there a better lujvo? > Well, truth values cannot generally be proportional to one another (the only ones we are sure of are 0 and 1 and only one combo of those yields a meaningful -- alebeit unintersting -- proportion). And if they could be proportional, what would that have to do with causation? Or with the origianl sentence. Events exist, by the way, event when they don't occur. And the language is always important -- even without Sapir-Whorf. --part1_8.1ace09d5.28f8944c_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/12/2001 1:04:08 PM Central Daylight Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes:


ganai le jei le glico cu jai bau darlu kei cu pabdu'i le jei le nundarlu
bi'unai cu zasti gi li'a le bangu cu vajni

Instead of le nunbroda cu rinka le nunbrode, I prefer le jezbroda (is
proportional to) le jezbrode.

pabdu'i = proportional. Is there a better lujvo?


Well, truth values cannot generally be proportional to one another (the only ones we are sure of are 0 and 1 and only one combo of those yields a meaningful -- alebeit unintersting -- proportion).  And if they could be proportional, what would that have to do with causation?  Or with the origianl sentence.  Events exist, by the way, event when they don't occur.  And the language is always important -- even without Sapir-Whorf.   --part1_8.1ace09d5.28f8944c_boundary--